Gimme a Boost, Mom! (Giveaway CLOSED)
Little AG has officially been two years old for less than a week but I’ve been noticing her gradually develop a stronger sense of independence for about two months now. (Some call it stubborn, pig-headed, and relentless–but me? Nah, I’ll stick with independent.) One of her new favorite phrases is “Help please!” (which really sounds something more like “haaaeep peesz! haaaeep peeessz! haaep! haaaep!” so now I get why I could never understand other people’s children when they were this age!) when she is asking if she can help you do something like put on her shirt, take the dishes out of the dishwasher (yes, I cringe each time), or help mommy to cook.
Most of these things are ones that she can try to help with, but when it comes to things in the kitchen, obviously the height of the countertop is an issue and serves as a barrier for how much she can help with. A chair would be too dangerous to stand on, and she can’t sit on the countertop itself, so our options are limited. The creators of The Learning Tower had the same exact thought about toddlers who are Little AG’s age, and they developed a product that safely brings toddlers aged 18 months and up to countertop height. The tower is available in 9 non-toxic colors to match your home, is simple to clean, and has an adjustable height platform so that as your child grows, so can the tower. Plus, throw a blanket over it and Voila! — instant playhouse.
To celebrate Love of Learning Month, the folks at Little Partners Inc. have teamed up with 20 awesome bloggers who will be giving away one Learning Tower each! I’m proud to be kicking off the beginning of these giveaways here on Chic Shopper Chick by giving you a chance to win a Learning Tower of your very own. The rules are below, but remember, if you don’t win here you still have 19 other chances to win – so be sure to enter them all!
Win it! For your initial entry, leave a comment here telling me why you’d like to have a learning tower. After that, every other (pertinent) comment left on this site on other posts from now through February 17th will count as an extra entry each. You don’t need to come back to this post and tell me you commented on another post, I can stalk track you via your email/ip address. As usual, extra entries are also available for stumbling Chic Shopper Chick (leave your stumble name), subscribing to my site, following me on Twitter, and blogging about this giveaway with a link back here. That’s it, so good luck!
US entries only, winner will be chosen via random.org at the end of the contest. Winners are posted here, please leave a valid email address or blog address if you’d like to be contacted should you win. Winner has 72 hours to claim their prize. This contest ends at 11:59 pm CST on February 17th, 2009.
What’s For Dinner? Reservations! (Giveaway CLOSED)
I was chatting on Skype with some of my friends the other day and, one by one, they started leaving our chat to go do this thing they called “making dinner.” I scoffed at such a silly concept — cooking is something to be done on special occasions – you know, like Holidays and um, let’s see…oh yes…when I want to fool guests into thinking I’m a domestic goddess. In all seriousness, I was somehow deprived of the womanly instinct that gives me the desire to cook, clean, nest, etc. To make up for it, I was given extra of the shopping instinct. So no, I can’t cook a Holiday Ham, but I certainly can help you pick out one rockin’ outfit for your office party.
For those of you who, like me, need a little assistance on the domestic front, I have just the thing to make your life (and role as a domestic goddess) a bit easier. Even if you don’t need any help, I think you’ll still love the Plan-A-Meal Bundle from Knock Knock. It comes with a Takeout Menu Organizer which is a hard cardboard binder with an elastic closure. It has a 50-sheet pad for taking orders (aptly titled “What Do You Want?”) from your family, a pen, a tipping guide, 9 tabbed dividers with menu storage pockets and adhesive tab labels for easy organization and a frequently called numbers list (because while I know the number to Chili’s and Outback by heart, I might need a reminder if we’re calling for Pizza.) I’m not sure where this awesome binder has been all my life or why my mother didn’t give it to me as a right of passage when I got married, but I’ll just say that I’m so glad I have one now.
The bundle also comes with a “What to Eat” pad, which has lots of room to plan out your dinners ahead of time (including boxes for “dine in”, “dine out”, and “takeout”) including breakfasts, lunches, and a “grab bag” section. It’s great for pre-planning that grocery list, or just sticking to a healthier eating plan, like I’ve been trying to do, when you know you have already planned out your meals for the week. Finally, the bundle also comes with an “All Out Of” pad, which is FANTASTIC because I’m always managing to forget one of my necessities when I go to the store. It has categories for almost anything I would ever have in my house at a given time, making it really easy to just check off what I’m out of when it happens. Plus, it’s magnetic so it’s just stuck to my fridge, and it’s always accessible (even if I do have to check it off with eyeliner).
You can buy all three of these things separately on the Knock Knock Website, but it’s cheaper to buy the bundle, and you’ll use them all, without a doubt. The bundle sells for $30.60.
Knock Knock has generously offered to giveaway one Plan-A-Meal Bundle to a lucky Chic Shopper Chick reader! To enter, visit the Knock Knock website and tell me what other product, besides the one mentioned here, would you love to have? As usual, extra entries are available for stumbling Chic Shopper Chick (leave your stumble name), subscribing to my site, following me on Twitter, and blogging about this giveaway with a link back here. Please put all extra entries in separate comments.
US entries only, winner will be chosen via random.org at the end of the contest. Winners are posted here, please leave a valid email address or blog address if you’d like to be contacted should you win. Winner has 72 hours to claim their prize. This contest ends at 11:59 pm CST on February 7th, 2009.
Face-Off Frenzy (Giveaway CLOSED)
Note: This giveaway is a part of the Bloggy Giveaways Quarterly Carnival! Thanks for stopping by, and be sure and visit all of the other great giveaways going on as a part of the Carnival!
I have a confession to make. I have a competitive side – and um, it can get pretty intense. It doesn’t usually appear during important times in my life when a little competition could actually benefit me, like vying for the best grade average in school or some other time when competition could have actually been “productive”. Oh no, my competitive side comes out during silly things like video games, and *ahem* AIR HOCKEY.
No need to re-read that bit, I definitely said Air Hockey. Think what you will — but I grit my teeth and play air hockey like it’s nobody’s business. I can thank my mom for that — she is the one who taught me to play, and taught me to love it. Oh yeah, and she never “let” me win. If I won against her – it was because I earned it! Of course, an air hockey table was a bit of a large thing to keep in the house growing up, so we only got to play the occasional game, but it was still a blast.
Oooh but wait! FunSlides came up with a solution that makes my 8 year old self (and, um, perhaps even my 26 year old self) VERY happy. Called Face-Off Frenzy, it is basically like air hockey, except it’s portable, easily stored and uses powerbands instead of electricity (no electric whirr). It is so so cool, and it really emulates the speed of real air hockey! It can be played on all indoor surfaces- a table, hardwood floor or carpeting and is perfect for kids and adults. Check out the video below to see how it works!
So, would you like to win Face Off Frenzy for your home? To enter, leave a comment here with your favorite game as a child. As usual, extra entries are available for stumbling Chic Shopper Chick (leave your stumble name), subscribing to my site, following me on Twitter, and blogging about this giveaway with a link back here.
US entries only, winner will be chosen via random.org at the end of the contest. Winners are posted here, please leave a valid email address or blog address if you’d like to be contacted should you win. Winner has 72 hours to claim their prize. This contest ends at 11:59 pm CST on February 3rd, 2009.
A Pink Boom…er, I mean Boon!
We LOVE our Boon Frog Pod
Woo hoo! They have a Pink Bug Pod and a Pink Flo now! Both are available exclusively at Babies R Us! Squeeee! Do you think hubby would complain if I replaced our perfectly functioning Boon Products with these? 
Fiddle your Photos with Photofiddle! (A Giveaway!)
I take lots of pictures. I love photography, and almost everyone in my family seems to have an eye for taking good pictures. We took over 10,000 pictures of Little AG in her first year alone, to give you an idea of what a photo-maniac I am. On a typical vacation I will come home with hundreds of photos, oftentimes between 300-500 of them. However, most of those photos, no matter how great they are, sit in iPhoto until I get the urge to make a Photo Book with them, or print them and make a scrapbook.
Recently I had the opportunity to try out Photofiddle — and they took a picture of me, Little AG, and hubby and quite literally turned it into a work of art! I’m particularly a fan of this picture because a) Little AG is smiling. At the camera. Without squinting. b) I don’t look particularly like a troll. c) It was taken at my favorite place on earth – Paris. The photo is of the three of us, standing on the second level of the Eiffel Tower, with the city of Paris behind us. C’est parfait.
Here is our initial photo, before it was fiddled.
They actually gave me tons of options — some looked like a Charcoal Sketch, some looked like a Comic Book, and some looked like an Andy Warhol Painting. But we chose the Soft Pastel look in the end, because, well, it was our favorite!
And now, after it was fiddled, here it is hanging on my wall:
Cool, right? Here is a little background on Photofiddle: The Photofiddle.com site went online in June 2004 and not too long after the launch it received a bit of press from the Washington Post, USA Today, PC Magazine & more. The Washington Post called them “buzz worthy” and PC Mag rated us 4 out of 5 stars. What really put Photofiddle.com on the map was when Oprah put them on the O list in 2006. More recently, the Today Show picked Photofiddle.com as a great DIY decorating idea, the CBS Early Show featured them as a best Mother’s Day gift idea, and the New York Times editor wrote a great article including Photofiddle.com. Pretty impressive!
Photofiddle.com comes highly recommended by me, and I think it is one of the greatest gifts that you can give, be it now for the Holiday Season or a special occasion in the future. Heck, even if you don’t need a gift — it’s a great choice just to decorate your house with some of those photos that might otherwise just be hanging around!
Win it! You can win a $50 Gift Certificate to Photofiddle to start creating your very own works of art. To enter, just follow the easy-peasy rules below!
- Visit the Photofiddle Site and tell me which design you would choose if you were able to “fiddle” one of your photos.
- Earn extra credit! You may do these for extra entries.
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- Blog about this giveaway and link back here. Tell me about it in a separate comment.
- Follow me on Twitter. Tell me about it in a separate comment.
- Subscribe to my RSS feed via email or in a reader and tell me about it in a separate comment.
- Stumble my main webpage (www.chicshopperchick.com) and leave me your Stumble Upon name in a separate comment.
That’s it! Good luck! Oh, and the official rules and legal jargon are below.
US entries only, winner will be chosen via random.org at the end of the contest. Winners are posted here and on Prizey Fetch, please leave a valid email address or blog address if you’d like to be contacted should you win. Winner has 72 hours to claim their prize. This contest ends at 11:59 pm CST on December 22nd, 2008.
Flip and Tumble for Flip and Tumble! (Review and Giveaway!)
November 13, 2008 by Erika
Filed under Accessories, Giveaways
I have every intention to be a do-good, eco-chic, recycling, re-useable grocery bagging girl, but the hardest part about it is, without fail, remembering to bring the darn bags WITH me to the store. I can’t tell you how many times I have been so excited to remember to bring my reusable bags, but then I forget them in the car, at home, on the floor, etc. So what good does it do if I forget to bring the bag in the first place?
Flip and Tumble has solved that problem! Their bags roll up or scrunch up nice and small so that they can just live in your purse or car, and they don’t take up too much room, but they are there when you need them! This way, it solves the problem of “remembering” to bring 
the bags with you!
Flip and Tumble offers two different styles of bags, the original 24/7 bag and their new Loopt Bag. Each one folds or scrunches up in about 5 seconds flat, making them a hit in my book! Plus, when you do unroll them, they are unbelieveably roomy — I fit 2 to 3 times the amount of groceries in one of them as I do in a regular plastic grocery bag!
Win it! You can win your very own Loopt or 24/7 bag from Flip and Tumble! To enter, follow the easy-peasy rules below!
- Visit Flip and Tumble, then come back here and tell me which bag you would chose, and in which color combo (official colors only please!)
- Earn extra credit! You may do these for extra entries.
- Blog about this giveaway and link back here and to Flip and Tumble. Tell me about it in a separate comment.
- Subscribe to my RSS feed via email or in a reader and tell me about it in a separate comment.
- Stumble my main webpage (www.chicshopperchick.com) and leave me your Stumble Upon name in a separate comment.
- Add me to your blog roll. Not just my button in your sidebar, I’d love to be on your blog roll! Let me know about it in a separate comment!
That’s it! Good luck! Oh, and the official rules and legal jargon are below. Oh, and don’t forget to check out my other great stocking stuffer ideas on day 3 of the Christmas Gift Guide here on Chic Shopper Chick!
US entries only, winner will be chosen via random.org at the end of the contest. Winners are posted here and on Prizey Fetch, please leave a valid email address or blog address if you’d like to be contacted should you win. Winner has 72 hours to claim their prize. This contests ends at 11:59 pm CST on November 22nd, 2008.
